Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is a foundational legal scholar, theorist, and Civil Rights advocate, known for coining such ...

This piece was originally featured on Research Matters. Within contemporary political language, a constitution is generally considered a neutral document, one that sets forth fundamental ground rules ...

A new Pew Research Center study confirmed what you might already suspect: Americans feel intense dissatisfaction with the way our government currently works and a growing distaste for both political ...

Egan Visiting Professor Yuval Levin spoke of the increasingly divided culture of U.S. politics in a Tuesday conversation at the Sanford School of Public Policy. The event, titled “Civil Discourse in ...

It’s time to redefine what populism means in the context of a liberal democracy—that’s the view of Professor Seth Jaffe ’00, who teaches the history of political thought at LUISS Guido Carli ...

Achille Mbembe is research professor of history and politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He will receive the award of ...

William E. Connolly, whose revolutionary approaches to political theory helped place Johns Hopkins at the center of the field, died Feb. 25 at the age of 88. Professor emeritus in the Krieger School's ...

Yale political theorist Hélène Landemore has a soft spot for shy people — the wallflowers least likely to seek or desire power. She believes shy people should play a bigger role in governing. In fact, ...

Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and prominent supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, is also something of a political theorist. His latest work is an essay in ...